Pravda o Ruby Cooperové – Nugent Liz (2026)

If Erin had not been so perfect, none of this would have happened. The Cooper sisters enjoy an idyllic childhood in a close-knit religious community in Boston. Erin is beautiful, admired and successful, while younger Ruby excels at nothing and is simply a little strange. When Ruby is sixteen, she accuses her sister’s boyfriend of rape. The event that was meant to remain secret tears the family apart and divides their lives into before and after. Twenty-five years later, Ruby lives with her grandmother in Dublin. Impulsive and self-destructive, she escapes into alcohol, drugs and casual sex, desperately trying to outrun the past that clings to her like a shadow. Erin has stayed in Boston, built an apparently stable life and learned to tell her own version of what happened. Yet their memories differ fundamentally. Ruby has an extraordinary ability to read other people’s weaknesses and use them to her advantage, knowing when to appear vulnerable, create doubt or make others take responsibility for decisions that were never theirs. As guilt shifts and roles change, the question remains: what really happened, and who has been deciding what should be believed all along? Liz Nugent once again confirms her reputation as an exceptional writer of psychological fiction, portraying characters who are deeply human—unpleasant, wounded, selfish, loving and cruel. None of them is entirely innocent, and none of them lies completely.